Advanced CSS Styling workshop schedule

Registration & Breakfast

Register, get settled and enjoy a cuppa and danish with your fellow attendees.

Introduction

1. The browser landscape and how CSS is being developed.
2. Web sites do not need to look exactly the same in every browser.
3. The natural differences between browsers.
4. How designing in a browser can be creative and the techniques and tools that make it possible.

Break

Advanced CSS

1. New ways to work with colour using RGBa and Opacity.
2. Using multiple background and border images.
3. How to use text and box shadows.
4. CSS masks fills, and gradients.
5. CSS reflections.
6. CSS transforms, transitions and animations.

Lunch

Javascript and progressive enrichment

1. How to improve a browser's CSS support using Javascript including Dean Edwards' IE8 scripts.
2. Modernizr and how it will help you to design around browser support.
3. Designing rather than hacking around browser differences
4. Universal Internet Explorer 6 CSS and when using it is appropriate.

Break

Tea, coffee and warm chocolate cookies

@font-face font embedding and typography

1. Creating striking, readable type with typographic hierarchies.
2. How to improve web typography with letter-spacing, leading and baseline shifts.
3. Working with font embedding solutions including Typekit, Kernest and Cufon.
4. Q&A and discussion.

Evening social

A chance to wind down, sink a few and socialize. Details about the evening's venue coming soon.